Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 34, Issue 10, Pages 1236-1242Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(03)00073-X
Keywords
EPR; EPR imaging; Nrf2; carbamoyl-PROXYL; lupus nephritis; free radicals
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Mice that lack the Nrf2 (NF-E2-related factor 2) transcription factor develop a lupus-like autoimmune nephritis. The tissue-reducing activity of Nrf2-deficient mice was evaluated using a combination of real-time EPR imaging and spin probe kinetic analysis. Substantial delay in the spin probe 3-carbamoyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidine-1-oxyl (Carbamoyl-PROXYL) disappearance in the liver and kidneys of Nrf2-deficient mice was observed by EPR imaging. The half-life of the spin probe in the upper abdominal area was prolonged in both the Nrf2-deficient mice and in aged mice. The combination of Nrf2 deficiency and aging in female mice resulted in the most prolonged half-life of disappearance, which was four times longer than that of juvenile female mice with a wild-type genotype. These results indicate that the low reducing activity in these organs is brought about by both Nrf2 deficiency and the aging process, and it may play a key role in the onset of autoimmune nephritis. This combination of the EPR imaging and half-life analysis appears to be a very powerful tool in the real-time analysis of reducing activity. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc.
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